Sources

I’ve done my best to pull together a list of my major con­tri­bu­tions; I’ve based it on the results from the toolserver, specifi­cally 2 of Soxred’s tools which return lists of pages cre­ated and arti­cles most edited for a user:

1. Most edited arti­cles:

   • Marudub­shinki
   • Rhwawn
   • Gwern

2. Arti­cles cre­at­ed:

   • Marudub­shinki
   • Rhwawn
   • Gwern

Those lists are unre­li­able, how­ev­er. They are incom­plete; ‘cre­ated’ may be mis­lead­ing, as I make many redi­rects which may be turned into an actual arti­cle by a later user (for exam­ple, I am cred­ited with cre­at­ing the valu­able com­puter sci­ence arti­cle green threads when all I did was redi­rect that name to the main arti­cle on threads). The tool tries to fil­ter out redi­rects, but may be wrong. The most-edited list­ings are also mis­lead­ing in the sense that a great many edits on a page may sim­ply be undo­ing van­dal­ism; I do not list René Descartes below because my dozens of edits there are just reverts and I do not feel reverts are a par­tic­u­larly valu­able ser­vice. Arti­cle writ­ing is. Some such arti­cles are listed where I have watched them for many years and feel that my super­vi­sion has risen to the level of a major con­tri­bu­tion. Con­verse­ly, some­times I have writ­ten arti­cles offline and then added them as sin­gle giant edits with a few fol­lowup edits to fix for­mat­ting errors; such arti­cles would not show up very highly on the most-edited list.

I am cer­tain that some of the fol­low­ing entries are erro­neous, and I have omit­ted some arti­cles that should be includ­ed. But I have done what I can. I am espe­cially proud of the high­lighted arti­cles such as the Medici bank, Brethren of Purity arti­cles, and the Fuji­wara no Teika arti­cle.

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